Court of Appeal (Criminal Division)
“The length of a community order was not necessarily governed by how long it took the offender to carry out a specified task.”
The Times, 5th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
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Regina (Barclay and Others) v Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice and Others
Court of Appeal
“Proposed reform of the constitution of the Channel Island of Sark which allowed the Seneschal, appointed by the Seigneur, to be both a member of the legislature and the chief judge, contravened article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights, guaranteeing a fair trial by an independent and impartial tribunal.”
The Times, 5th December 2008
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The National Child Measurement Programme Regulations 2008
The Non-Domestic Rating Contributions (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Education (Information About Individual Pupils) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Childcare (Provision of Information About Young Children) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Travellers’ Allowances (Amendment) Order 2008
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (Nomination) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
“Thousands of internet users have been told they’ll be taken to court unless they pay hundreds of pounds for illegally downloading and sharing hardcore porn movies.”
BBC News, 5th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A leading UK law firm has paid its partners £12 million in profits ahead of schedule because it believes that the money will be safer in private rather than corporate bank accounts.”
The Times, 5th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A businesswoman who suffered brain damage after being hit by a car on a zebra crossing has won £2.75 million in compensation.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“The first person in the world to be convicted on the basis of DNA evidence has been given permission to challenge his sentence.”
BBC News, 4th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“A couple who had their three children forcibly adopted after being accused of abuse are the victims of a ‘terrible miscarriage of justice’, a court heard.”
Daily Telegraph, 4th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“More than 1.6 million DNA and fingerprint samples of innocent people on police databases must be destroyed after a court ruled yesterday that keeping them breaches human rights.”
The Times, 5th December 2008
Source: www.timesonline.co.uk
“A Dorset mother forced to wait 18 months to bury her two-year-old son has been celebrating after her six-year campaign led to a change in the law.”
BBC News, 4th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“An African asylum seeker who fled her homeland after being tortured and raped has been awarded £38,000 after a judge ruled her detention ‘unlawful’.”
BBC News, 4th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“The mother of Shannon Matthews has been found guilty of charges relating to her daughter’s disappearance.”
BBC News, 4th December 2008
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“Two men from Sheffield, South Yorkshire, who were previously cleared of criminal charges, have won a major victory after the European Court of Human Rights ruled keeping their DNA on the British police database breached their human rights.”
Daily Telegrap, 4th December 2008
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
The Legal Services Act 2007 (Functions of a Designated Regulator) Order 2008
The Domestic Violence, Crime and Victims Act 2004 (Commencement No. 10) Order 2008
The Definition of Financial Instrument Order 2008
The Financial Assistance Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008
The Takeover Code (Concert Parties) Regulations 2008
The Occupational Pensions (Revaluation) Order 2008
The Alcoholic Liquor (Surcharge on Spirits Duty) Order 2008
Source: www.opsi.gov.uk
High Court (Queen’s Bench Division)
Gorecia & Ors v Somani & Ors [2008] EWHC 2970 (QB) (03 December 2008)
Source: www.bailli.org
“The Reform (Sark) Law 2008, which, inter alia, provided, in relation to the Island of Sark, a Crown Dependency and a part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, for the Seneschal, the senior judge of Sark, to remain as an unelected member and President of the Chief Pleas, the island’s legislature, did not breach art 3 of the First Protocol to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.”
WLR Daily, 4th December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
R (DB) v Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust [2008] EWCA Civ 1354; [2008] WLR (D) 375
“The effect of an order for the admission and detention of an offender in a hospital, within s 37 of the Mental Health Act 1983, was limited by s 40 to the period of 28 days from the date of the making of the order. A subsequent amendment of the order did not authorise admission after the 28-day period in the original order.”
WLR Daily, 3rd December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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R v A [2008] EWCA Crim 2908; [2008] WLR (D) 374
“The expression ‘new and compelling evidence … in relation to the qualifying offence’ in s 78(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 was not restricted to further evidence either from an individual who suggested that the defendant had admitted after the trial that he was guilty of the offence or from newly emerging witnesses who said that they had heard or seen something at the time which directly supported the relevant complaint.”
WLR Daily, 3rd December 2008
Source: www.lawreports.co.uk
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